Using Cloth Diapers sounds GROSS, is it?
June 10, 2007
Just let me say this, “NO, it’s not gross!”
This is probably the leading reason parents DON’T give cloth diapers a try. I think that most people are probably worried about the cleanliness of using and carrying for cloth diapers. Messy clean-ups, stinky diapers and wet diaper pails are the images invoked when cloth diapers are mentioned. I’d like to put an end to the false impressions once and for all.
Firstly, CHANGING cloth diapers is just like changing a paper diaper. The aim here is to remove the soiled diaper, clean the bottom and make sure baby has a nice clean diaper. This part all stays the same regardless of whether you are using cloth or paper. Now with paper you dispose of the diaper (it’s just as easy to toss in a diaper pail!) Poop is poop, smelly is smelly — a diaper change is a diaper change! The difference comes when the change is over … the cloth diapers will need washing. The paper make their was to the garbage and then to the land fill to sit for up to 500 years before they are reclaimed by the planet (that’s a really long time!).
Washing cloth diapers isn’t the big deal you think it is! Trust me - your modern washing machines are designed to handle a few messy diapers. I promise you, you won’t have to *touch* a thing!
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